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2004-2006 (Creation)
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- Nova Scotia. Nunn Commission of Inquiry
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2.6 m of textual records and other material.
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Administrative history
On Oct 14 2004 Theresa McEvoy was killed by a young offender in a car crash. The young offender had been unintentionally released from custody two days previously and a public inquiry under Mr Justice Merlin Nunn, a retired Justice of the NS Supreme Court, was commissioned by Order in Council on June 29, 2005. In January of 2006 public sessions of the Commission opened and testimony was heard from 47 witnesses, including members of the McEvoy family, the Halifax Regional Police, the Attorney General of Nova Scotia, the RCMP, two individual Crown attorneys, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association, the Halifax Regional School Board, and the young person charged in the incident. The commission examined what exactly had happened, the procedures and policies followed, the actions of law enforcement and justice officials, and why the young person was released from custody. In December of 2006 the Commission issued its report titled: Spiraling out of control: Lessons learned from a boy in trouble. The report included 34 recommendations in three core areas: youth justice administration and accountability; youth crime legislation; and prevention of youth crime in the province.
Custodial history
Following the Commission's report the records were the subject of a draft One TIme Records Retention Schedule which identified administrative records for destruction, provided for the return of some protected Young Offender materials to other offices within the Justice system, and the transfer of public commission evidence and records to the Archives. The schedule was approved in 2013 and the materials were received by the Archives in 2015.
Scope and content
As the Inquiry was looking at the actions of a young offender and how they interacted with the justice system some of the evidence heard by the Commission would ultimately be materials to which legislative access restriction apply under the Young Offender’s Act. The transferred materials are almost entirely related to the public hearings and meetings of the Commission of Inquiry. These materials are : transcripts and CD audio recordings of the Commission’s public sessions; books of documents entered as exhibits before the Commission including separate books of documents produced for disclosure to all parties prior to the Commission’s hearings; and the final submissions and arguments of parties.
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Audio recordings and transcripts of the public sessions of the Commission are open for research and consultation. Documents entered into evidence and recorded in the Commission's evidence books may be subject to access restrictions related to the Young Offenders Act.
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File list available. Items potentially impacted by access restrictions are noted.
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Included in the extent are 157 cds which contain audio recordings of the Commission's hearings and public sessions and textual transcriptions of testimony heard.